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Midwest Insurance Commissioners on the Move

Jan 23 2017 // Several Midwest states, including Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and North Dakota, experienced transitions among insurance commissioners as 2016 folded into 2017.Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner named Jennifer Hammer to head of the...

Midwest Regulation Report Card: States’ Grades Range from A to D

Jan 9 2017 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...

New North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Appoints Deputy, Exec Assistant

Jan 3 2017 // North Dakota’s new insurance commissioner, Jon Godfread, who was sworn in on Jan. 3, 2017, appointed Jeff Ubben as deputy insurance commissioner and Marcy Ost as executive assistant as part of his first official day...

Heavy Snowpack Has Some in North Dakota Wary of Spring Flooding

Jan 3 2017 // Some Minot residents who endured the Souris River flood of 2011 are having trouble digesting the current snowpack numbers.The National Weather Service says the snowfall total in the city for November and December is...

Blizzards, Ice Storms Wreak Havoc In Midwest Plains

Dec 27 2016 // Travel conditions remained hazardous as a winter storm swept across much of the northern Great Plains, with blowing and drifting snow creating near-zero visibility on some roads.The combination of freezing rain, snow and...

Midwest Regulation Report Card: States’ Grades Range from A to D

Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...

U.S. Regulators Order Action to be Taken for North Dakota Oil Spill

Dec 21 2016 // U.S. pipeline regulators on Wednesday ordered Belle Fourche Pipeline Co. to improve leak detection, along with other actions, after a Dec. 5 incident that spilled about 4,200 barrels of oil in North Dakota.Of that total,...

Nodak Mutual Seeking to Convert to a Stock Company

Dec 19 2016 // A North Dakota mutual insurer with ties to the Farm Bureau is awaiting a decision from the state insurance commissioner as to whether it can proceed with a plan to convert to a stock insurance company.Nodak Mutual...

Cleanup Ongoing after North Dakota Pipeline Oil Spill

Dec 14 2016 // Roughly a third of the more than 3,000 barrels of oil that spilled into a North Dakota creek following a pipeline leak last week has been recovered, a local official said.An estimated 4,200 barrels of oil leaked from the...

Hepatitis C Victims Reach Settlement with North Dakota Hospital

Dec 13 2016 // Nearly two dozen victims of one of the largest hepatitis C outbreaks in recent U.S. history have settled their claims against a Minot, N.D., hospital out of court.Neither plaintiffs’ attorney Behdad Sadeghi nor...

North Dakota’s Nodak Mutual Seeking to Convert to a Stock Company

Dec 12 2016 // A North Dakota mutual insurer with ties to the Farm Bureau is awaiting a decision from the state insurance commissioner as to whether it can proceed with a plan to convert to a stock insurance company.Nodak Mutual...

North Dakota Ranks 47th in Firefighting Ability; Volunteers Needed

Dec 5 2016 // North Dakota ranks 47th in the country in being equipped to fight fires and it’s not helping that fewer people are signing up to be volunteer firefighters.Most fire departments in North Dakota are made up of...

Task Force Submits Cybersecurity Recommendations to North Dakota Governor

Dec 2 2016 // A state task force on capital cybersecurity has submitted its recommendations to North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple.Topics in the report include improving monitoring and scanning of the state’s information technology...

North Dakota, with Fewer Volunteers, Ranks 47th in Firefighting Capability

Nov 21 2016 // North Dakota ranks 47th in the country in being equipped to fight fires and it’s not helping that fewer people are signing up to be volunteer firefighters.Most fire departments in North Dakota are made up of...

Godfread to Become North Dakota’s Next Insurance Commissioner

Nov 9 2016 // Republican Jon Godfread has won the election for insurance commissioner in North Dakota. He will replace Adam Hamm who did not seek re-election.Godfread won with 64.4 percent of the vote, according to the North Dakota...

North Dakota Seeks to Increase Safety of Rail-Transported Crude, Adds Inspectors

Oct 31 2016 // North Dakota has added another step to help ensure the safety of crude transported by rail with the addition of two inspectors.The inspectors have so far completed a combined 76 inspections covering more than 1,000 miles...

North Dakota Voters to Decide on Medical Marijuana

Oct 24 2016 // North Dakota voters will decide next month whether to legalize marijuana for medical use, by siding with opponents who say sciences is on their side or with supporters like a desperate grandmother who illegally purchased...

Report Shows California and New Jersey Have Highest Workers’ Comp Rates

Oct 18 2016 // California and New Jersey had the nation’s most expensive workers’ compensation rates, while North Dakota had the lowest rates in the nation, a new report shows.A report released this week by the Oregon...

Hub International Acquires North Dakota-Based Mayport Insurance & Realty

Oct 5 2016 // Chicago-based insurance brokerage, Hub International Limited (Hub), has acquired the assets of Mayport Insurance & Realty Inc. (Mayport) in North Dakota. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Based in Portland,...

North Dakota Nonprofit to Open $6M Heavy Equipment Safety Training Facility

Oct 5 2016 // The North Dakota Safety Council is beginning construction on a nearly 23,500-square-foot, hands-on heavy equipment safety training facility in Bismarck.The Bismarck Tribune reported that until now, companies have had to...